I'm visiting my parents and I left a spare Zimaboard so I could set up a Pihole network and maybe some other interesting selfhosted applicatiions. Pihole was a disaster. It took half an all nighter and more searching than I should've done. Extra points off because I wanted to deploy…
The desktop disaster was not the last of my struggles 😅
Lots of angry swearing and tech malding ahead.…
The real mistake started with wanting to finish adding email subscription support on Thursday. I felt so productive the past week studying, so adding another finished task to the list of small victories while I was on a roll felt like the obvious play. While the internal testing for the…
The last time I set up a Chinese IME on Linux was on Ubuntu back in college days. I distinctly remember using the IBus framework. After installing that and one of the pinyin inputs, it just worked TM. Now, on Endeavor OS, I thought I'd be adventurous and try another…
I'm currently connecting my upstairs desktop to the internet via Android USB tethering. Just the other day I decided to install a few home media servers for convenience while staying with parents. I've tried Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, Kodi, a bunch of them. Every single time I try to access the…
Some of you might have already heard that I've been getting really weird monitor issues intermittently. It used to only be once in a blue moon, mostly when I was playing waifus on Bluestacks. So of course, I blamed Bluestacks for the troubles. The monitor would suddenly blink out into…